EDID firmware resides in the monitor itself. You should never have to worry
about it, unless something is shot on your monitor. X-Org will probe it for
some basic information about your panel, to use in its configuration.
I did have to access it once, when I suspected my brand new monitor was
dead. I had to dig out the full results of what was in the EDID to figure
out what was wrong, and that it was a problem within the monitor. This was
with a band new Samsung funnily enough. However I called up Samsung with
this information, and within a half hour of being on the phone with them(One
transfer as the person I got in touch with the first time was obviously
entry level tech support and they realised very quickly I knew more than
they did about it so they transferred me up to the higher ups), they were
shipping out a new monitor to me to a local UPS store since I wasn't home
most of the day, where I did my exchange there. Couldn't be happier with
their service in that regards.
But most people(99.999%) will probably never have to worry about it.
Seablade
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@email-addr-hidden>
wrote:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > There is no system-overhead from re-calculating the pixels. Its done by
> the
> > screen itself. But it usually looks ugly, so it is best to use the fixed
> > maximum resolution of the flat-panel. Even if you set the base font size
> to
> > bigger values. (Makes you find bad ui design in apps...)
> I discovered that quickly enough. It's now at its maximum resolution, I
> must say it's pretty nice, especially for movies. Ardour looked great on
> it too, but I notice some "shimmering" on some other things. I'm still
> playing with the contrast and some other controls to find the best
> settings.
>
> Btw, how is the EDID accessed by the driver ? I mean, is it supposed to
> reside in a certain place, do I have to load it, or whatever ? Is it
> important to me ?
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
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